Reuters: Osama Bin Laden is dead – prove it
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 00:12
"[The] editors on the Global Picture Desk found inconsistencies that immediately made us suspicious. There was odd pixilation and blurring and his face was darker in some areas than others. The biggest problem was that the picture looked familiar …
E-Media Tidbits: TweetDeck Newsroom Rollout Continues at Sky News
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 08:35
"[Julian] March is so serious about [Tweetdeck's] value that he is making social media literacy an objective on his digital media staff's performance reviews. 'I want to see social media become a part of the fabric of the day-to-day work,' he said."
paidContent:UK: Daily Mail: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact This Year
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 12:05
"The Association of Online Publishers … has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010."
Reuters social media guidelines
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 16:55
"The recommendations … offer general guidance with more detailed suggestions for managing your presence on the most popular social networks."
FT.com: Thomson Reuters to overhaul news website
Friday, 4 December 2009, 11:14
“I think eventually we will [charge],” Alisa Bowen, head of consumer publishing for Thomson Reuters, told the FT. “This is designed to be an ad-supported property, but as we introduce a greater range of content we will be looking for a range of different business models.”
MediaFile: Why I believe in the link economy
Thursday, 6 August 2009, 19:51
Chris Ahearn, president, Media, Thomson Reuters: "Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. … Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests."
Reuters Editors: Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter | Blogs |
Friday, 26 June 2009, 11:09
David Schlesinger: "Fundamentally, the old media won’t control news dissemination in the future. And organisations can’t control access using old forms of accreditation any more."
ReadWriteWeb: CNET Partners with Thomson Reuters on Linked Data Initiative
Friday, 29 May 2009, 07:53
"CNET … has signed up to use OpenCalais for semantic analysis of its tech product reviews, news, and blog posts. CNET has also joined Thomson Reuters as one of the first commercial media companies to publish its data to the Linked Data community on the Internet."
FT.com: Thomson Reuters / Bloomberg
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 06:51
"Anyone who thinks the news business is dead should look at the wire services. …"
Press Gazette: Reuters rolls out ‘studio in a suitcase’
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 06:54
"The lightweight and inexpensive portable studio comprises a Tandberg Edge 95 video camera, microphone, lights, tripod and monitor. … Thomson Reuters is also distributing 100 Flip video cameras and experimenting with other news-gathering tools."
New York Times: Google Puts Ads on Its News Site, Reviving Debate
Saturday, 28 February 2009, 10:36
"Brian Tierney, chief executive of Philadelphia Media Holdings, which own The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News, said the new ads contributed to his skepticism about Google’s intentions. When Eric Schmidt says he worries about the newspaper industry, it’s crocodile tears,” Mr. Tierney said."
The Economist: Why news agencies are thriving
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 08:27
"A few struggling newspaper groups have stopped subscribing to newswires. Many others, having cut their own newsrooms, have become more dependent than ever on regurgitating agency copy. The proliferation of news websites, hungry for content, but lacking staff to produce it themselves, has also boosted the agencies"
Silicon Alley Insider: Reuters Scoops Itself By Twittering From Davos
Friday, 30 January 2009, 14:39
David Schlesinger: "What we're doing with live tweets at Davos is that our people, including me, can live tweet unintermediated under our own names (daschles is just me). Then some of the "best" or most interesting are then picked up and retweeted on www.reuters.com/davos so we're combining unedited and edited processes."
Tom Glocer’s Blog : Davos 2009: Newspapers Remain Dead
Friday, 30 January 2009, 14:16
"While Luddites and Refusniks remain, there seems to be growing acceptance of the point I and others have been making for years: Newsprint is an output device, not an end in itself. What matters is quality journalism which can and does thrive in multiple media."
